With the my blog entry yesterday on Refining MySQL Community Server, did anything really change? If so, was it for the better or for worse for the community?

My answer is “not much”, and “for the better”, but feel free to disagree.

Judging from some reactions in the community, a lot changed, and for the worse.

• Mike Kruckenberg feels that MySQL takes another step away from Open Source, through no longer publishing the sources for the Enterprise incarnation of the MySQL Server.
• Jeremy Cole claims that the MySQL Community split is officially …

I've just read post http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=123 about MySQL plans of including community contributions into releases. I understand MySQL's interest to make releases stable, and includes contributions only into development tree, but this is not something I would like to see.
Look, MySQL 5.0 was shipped as production on 19 October 2005. Since almost 2 years there is no 5.1 GA, it is still on road. That means if we push our changes into development tree 5.2, the our contrinution will be released in 2 years. Actually this fact make me absolutelly not interested in contrubution my skills into improving MySQL.

One more thing I think about - the difference between between Enterprise and Community releases in 5.0 is only SHOW PROFILE patch, the same probably will be in 5.1. I just wonder how the single patch makes difference, so there is a need to make two …

Yesterday Kaj Published changes to MySQL Community Release Policies. I knew about them a bit in advance but now they are public I can comment a bit.

In general I'm disappointed and think this is moving in the wrong direction, it also makes me to think hard if MySQL is out of more creative solutions to increase the sales revenue ?

The main issue for me is Change policy for MySQL Community version. We are patching MySQL with minor extension so this concerns us a lot - it would be much easier to make our customers to run Community version (at least temporary) compared compiling patched version for them. There was as hope MySQL Community version would allow to quickly make changes available but not it is gone.

Honestly I do not think it ever work. We have submitted our patches for microsecond resolution of slow queries over half a year ago. These patches had a …

A few days ago, I got the opportunity to hear about some upcoming changes in MySQL Community and MySQL Enterprise. I’ve been waiting for an official announcement before commenting on the changes, and Kaj has finally posted the official announcement on his blog in Refining MySQL Community Server.

In summary, the changes are:

• Community gets no new features in any version once that version becomes GA — This effectively means that the difference between the content of Community and Enterprise approaches nil, since the addition of “Community Enhancements” was the major selling point for MySQL Community; In addition, it means that as of today, any new …

Different things can be said about Kaj Arno's , Refining MySQL Community Server but given the fact that the source will continue to be freely available from Bitkeeper I see no issues apart from a possible growth in real community MySQL with real contributions.

In Mike Kruckenberg's article on the topic someone comments and asks how this is different from the RedHat model, I only see one difference, today we don't have a CentOS yet for MySQL .. I`m sure it's just a matter of time and someone will start building RPM/Debian packages from the source repository. (If it's not already happening today)

As long as MySQL keeps all their source code free ..

Different things can be said about
Kaj Arno's , Refining MySQL Community Server but given the fact that the source will continue to be freely available from Bitkeeper I see no issues apart from a possible growth in real community MySQL with real contributions.

In Mike Kruckenberg's article on the topic someone comments and asks how this is different from the RedHat model, I only see one difference, today we don't have a CentOS yet for MySQL .. I`m sure it's just a matter of time and someone will start building RPM/Debian packages from the source repository. (If it's not already happening today)

As long as MySQL keeps all their source code free ..

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Oracle Contributes Enhancements To Linux Community, Oracle (Press Release)

Leading Open Source Legal Experts Join Linux Foundation, Linux Foundation (Press Release)

Outsourcing Leader Luxoft Contributes New Test Automation Tool to Open Source, Luxoft (Press Release)

Oracle Provides Six New Validated Configurations for Linux …

Direct play this episode at:
http://technocation.org/content/oursql-episode-21%3A-rise-mysql-dba-1

Paul Vallee is back for this non-technical podcast about the special creature that is the MySQL DBA.

News:
October 2006 Enterprise/Community Split announcement
http://www.planetmysql.org/entry.php?id=4393

Current clarification of Enterprise/Community split
http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=123

Dorsal Source, a community-focused website whose goal is to provide builds of MySQL and related products.
http://www.dorsalsource.org

Learning Resource:
MySQL Camp II, August …

Mike Kruckenberg, well-respected community member recently blogged about MySQL taking another step (away from open source, and I’d like to refute some of his worries. In fact, this is really more to drive away from what some within the community think is not kosher, i.e. change #5 in Kaj’s blog entry.

The sources are always available. Its just gone one step further, in that you need to use the Bitkeeper free client, and pull the correct revision, tags of which are always at http://mysql.bkbits.net/. From there, you are welcome to compile it yourself, and even make a binary distribution, all with fair ease thanks to the excellent …

Paul Vallee is back for this non-technical podcast about the special creature that is the MySQL DBA.

News:
October 2006 Enterprise/Community Split announcement
http://www.planetmysql.org/entry.php?id=4393

Current clarification of Enterprise/Community split
http://www.planetmysql.org/kaj/?p=123

Dorsal Source, a community-focused website whose goal is to provide builds of MySQL and related products.
http://www.dorsalsource.org

Learning Resource:
MySQL Camp II, August 23-24 2007, Brooklyn NY
http://www.mysqlcamp.org

http://www.poly.edu

Feature:
The …